Re: what's happening?

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

>I have been expecting something like this for a long time, but so far
>nothing has happened.  If it continues, what dog will Clinton wag?
>
>Michael Perelman

Actually, I think it is clear that the Miami mess was not cooked up as some
kind of attempt to divert the public's attention from the economy or
anything else. It has been something of a revelation--in fact--that there
is so little interest in the affair on LBO-Talk or PEN-L.

In reality the confrontation between the Cuban goverment and US capitalism
revolves around core issues that have yet to be resolved. In some ways the
analogy that keeps cropping up in the press about Orville Faubus or George
Wallace defying the federal government are most apt. While nominally
committed to integration, the Democratic Party included the Dixiecrats.

The reason that the government has been so spineless with respect to the
kidnappers is that it is ambivalent about their role in American society.
It needs the Miami gusanos as much as US capitalism needed (and needs) the
KKK. Instruments of terror such as these can be used to intimidate
liberation movements overseas or within our borders. It is interesting to
compare FBI collusion with the Klan murderers and CIA support for the
criminals who have set off bombs on Cuban civilian airliners, among other
things. The criminals are never apprehended for some odd reason.

Louis Proyect

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